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Treatment of abdominothoracic actinomycosis with imipenem

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The probably successful treatment of a 42 year old diabetic patient suffering from relapsing abdominothoracic actinomycosis with imipenem is reported. Several earlier attempts to cure the patient by combination of surgical procedures (including cysto-jejunostomy and pancreatic tail resection) in combination with four or six week courses of intravenously administered penicillin G had failed.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Knappschaftskrankenhaus, 4630, Bochum 7, Germany

    M. Edelmann, K. H. Nowak & W. Kozuschek

  2. Department of Medical Microbiology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, PO Box 10 21 48, 4630, Bochum 1, Germany

    W. Cullmann

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Edelmann, M., Cullmann, W., Nowak, K.H. et al. Treatment of abdominothoracic actinomycosis with imipenem. Eur. J, Clin. Microbiol. 6, 194–195 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02018211

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